Imagine a CEO who has been spending more money than his company takes in. He has been operating without a budget for more than four years, because his budget proposals are so out of line, no one will support them. His company will stop running if he fails to negotiate an agreement with his board of directors. The CEO announces publicly that he will not negotiate. He leaves the country and puts his CFO in charge of reaching a deal. Except his CFO says he will not negotiate, either. As a result, the company shuts down.

Whose fault is it?

In Obamaland, the fault never lies with the Commander in Chief, who seems to think his most important job is to blame others. It’s a job he’s very good at. While President Truman was famous for saying, “The buck stops here,” for President Obama, anything that happens is always someone else’s fault.

On the rare occasion that something good happens during his administration, though, he’s quick to take credit. You may recall, for example, that he personally captured Osama Bin Laden.

So who should the IRS investigate? Groups that want to “make America a better place to live” or groups that want to destroy our freedom?

The folks at the IRS, possibly with direction from higher up, determined that anyone who wants to make America a better place to live has to be a conservative and should, therefore, be targeted for scrutiny. Those using terms like “Tea Party,” “Patriots” or “9/12 Project” in their case files when seeking tax exemption were also targeted, as were those who were critical of how the country is being run.

When a reporter asks President Obama a tough question, it’s news in a “man-bites-dog” kind of way, as it happens so infrequently. So, in the interest of spreading the news, below is an exchange between NBC’s Chuck Todd and the Leader of the Free World.

Note the classic non-answer. I’ve included what President Obama said, but added what he was likely thinking.